Chapter 207: Let the Qing Army Taste the Ming Artillery
After all, the defenders of Daming Henan suffered a lot from the Qing army's red-coated artillery along the way, and even the auxiliary Gao Hongtu was almost hit by the red-coated cannon.
So now Liu Fangliang is also deadly, and the artillery unit can vigorously throw shells into the rushing Qing army's iron cavalry sprint camp.
These shells fell into the camp of the Qing army's iron cavalry like a plowshare, directly hitting the Qing army's iron cavalry on their backs, and quickly exploded directly because of the impact.
Countless shrapnel pierced directly into the chest, abdomen or belly of these cavalrymen, or the abdomen of war horses.
In an instant, the entire Qing army's iron cavalry was a little chaotic, especially Kong Youde's Han Eight Banner iron cavalry camp, which was directly disrupted by the camp!
Moreover, the artillery of the Ming Guards is a mother and child cannon, and the sub-cannon with pre-loaded ammunition can be directly placed on top of the mother cannon, so that the artillery fire can carry out continuous strikes.
In addition, the quality of the gun body has been improved, and the gun body has not been deformed due to high temperature, and even if it is deformed, it has been cooled by pre-prepared cold air and water.
Because of the clear division of labor of an artillery team, the process of changing guns, aiming and firing and then cooling is very fast.
In an instant, nearly 1,000 shells had exploded in the Qing army's iron cavalry camp.
The Qing cavalry had to disperse at first, and then had to retreat altogether.
Seeing that the Qing army had shown signs of retreat, Liu Fangliang immediately ordered the signal corps to blow the horn.
Suddenly, the first and second battalions of the cavalry were organized into two sharp arrows and pasted towards the retreating Qing army's iron cavalry.
Mao Jukui, as a grassroots officer of the first battalion of the cavalry, rushed directly to the front at this time, and the scimitar in his hand slashed directly at the head of a tartar with a rat's tail.
And this tartar also skillfully dodged sideways, his calf was close to the horse's belly, his body leaned obliquely, and he took out a hard bow with one hand and pulled it away directly, and was about to shoot Mao Jukui's abdomen.
Seeing this, Mao Jukui immediately hit his horse and ran out, and at the same time dropped a sky-shaking thunder with his backhand.
This kind of earth-shattering thunder exploded directly when it touched the ground, and in an instant, the Tartar sat down and the war horse was shot in the abdomen, and the blood flowed, and it fell directly to the ground in a few hits.
And the tartar on the horse's back flew out because of inertia, and Mao Jukui immediately chased after him on horseback, and slashed into the waist of the tartar, because of the huge inertia, the tartar was directly split in half.
And Mao Jukui himself burst into bleeding, but he couldn't help but muster up his courage at this time, and continued to slash and kill without caring about the blood on his hands.
The rest of the Guards also desperately pursued and slashed and slashed.
But there were also many Guards cavalry who did not have the good luck of Mao Jukui and were shot under the horse with bows and arrows by the Tartar iron horsemen on horseback.
There are also those who are not more skilled and robust than the Tartars, and they are directly killed by the Tartars.
However, despite this, the iron cavalry of the two cavalry battalions of tens of thousands of guards still forced the Qing army iron cavalry to withdraw faster, and did not dare to fight again.
It was not until they had run for several miles that the cavalry of the Guards retreated, and the iron cavalry of the Qing army stopped.
After the first round of fighting between the two sides, the Qing army's iron cavalry did not take advantage of the slightest.
The Eight Banners of the Manchu Army left more than 300 corpses and seriously wounded people, while the Eight Banners of the Han Army also left more than 700 corpses and seriously wounded people.
The cavalry of the two battalions of the Guards Army also lost more than 500 cavalry themselves, and they still lost more than 500 cavalry when the artillery had already carried out a round of strikes and the Qing army's iron cavalry had no intention of fighting, which is enough to show that the cavalry of the Guards Army still had a big gap in the confrontation with the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry because of their training time and participation in actual combat.
Liu Fangliang couldn't help but be furious, he didn't expect that his cavalry battalion was just a pursuit, and there were more than 500 casualties.
As the chief officer, he felt that this was a great insult to him.
As a former general of the Invasion Army, he had never experienced fighting with the Tartars in this life, so he had no fear of the Tartars, and he thought that his cavalry battalion could slash and kill the Tartar cavalry who fled from the desert at will just like he took the thief cavalry to abuse the cavalry of the Left Army.
But he didn't expect that these Manchu iron cavalry would still be orderly even when retreating, and even kill and injure.
Liu Fangliang got on the war horse directly, and wanted to personally lead the cavalry to rush him once.
As a man who has been fighting since Chongzhen's early years, he really wants to experience how powerful these Tartars are up close.
Liu Fangliang was furious, and the mood of the deputy capital of the Qing army, Southern Hunan, and Gongshun Wang Kong Youde was not very good.
The armored cavalry lost more than 300 people, which was a loss that he had never encountered since entering the customs.
However, this was only the first charge, and it had caused such a big loss, and even now he felt a little uneasy when he thought of the cannonball that could explode directly, and he couldn't help but look at his hand that was still bleeding, as if the wound had not stopped.
Kong Youde was also very sad about the loss of more than 700 horses.
In these years, the cavalry is the baby bump of the general, and these 5,000 iron cavalry is also the family foundation he has begun to accumulate since following Mao Wenlong, many of them are elite veterans who have been fighting for more than five years, and now they have directly lost more than 700 cavalry, for him, his cavalry has almost reached the verge of collapse.
Hunan, and Kong Youde did not give up the attack on Mengcheng.
However, this time, Enan and Kong Youde learned to be obedient, and first led the 5,000 iron cavalry composed of Manchu and Han under their command to rush towards the infantry battalion in the center of the Guards.
A corps of the Guards Army has three infantry battalions and three infantry battalions B.
Today, the six infantry battalions of the First Corps of the Third Guards Army are arranged in a triangular pattern, facing the Qing army's iron cavalry head-on.
However, at the same time, the two artillery battalions had also been adjusted to the two sides of the infantry battalion formation, and began to alternately carry out artillery strikes at the Qing iron cavalry in front.
But this time, Hunanan and Kong Youde both learned to be more obedient and scattered the iron cavalry charging camp, so the lethal effect caused by the Ming field artillery shells decreased.
But it can still create a huge explosion sound that slows down the speed of the Qing army's iron cavalry charge, making the Qing army's iron cavalry and its sitting war horse unable to concentrate on the charge well.
Hunan's own Eight Banners armored soldiers rushed to the front, and these Tartars were all very arrogant, while galloping wildly, they directly bent their bows and arrows, and wantonly pulled out strong bows and heavy arrows to harass the infantry camp of the Guards.
The Manchu Eight Banners Iron Cavalry did this not only to frighten the infantry camp, but also to force the soldiers in the infantry camp to fire firearms in advance because of nervousness, and these experienced Tatar cavalry also took advantage of this to find out the truth and know where to break through. 、
Kong Youde's Eight Banners of the Han Army followed behind, and the Eight Banners of the Full Army in front of the scholars also roared, extremely arrogant!
They seemed to have completely forgotten their previous losses, and the sound of artillery still exploding in their ears at this time, and their eyes stared at the infantry battalion brothers of the Ming Guards as fiercely as the eyes of jackals.